These days, Photoshop has become a verb and every photograph can be suspected of stretching the truth.  In his lecture, Smith will discuss this notion within the context of traditional photography but also in the context of his own transformation from taking photographs to making photographs.  Smith’s digital “constructions” bear little resemblance to reality, but still embrace a photograph’s unique ability to record it.  His reluctance to focus on a “decisive moment” is accommodated by a working method that is more aligned with less immediate forms of art such as painting or sculpture.